BamaJohn
Active member
After all the rain we've had o'er the past week, I finally dried out me skivvies this mornin' and cleared the Spyder's webs for a ride before temps hit 90*F.
Camp Winnataska's history began as an afternoon excursion in March 1914 in a Model-T Ford. Lured to the site by a promising fishing hole, Dr. Elwyn Ballard and his wife, Florence Aye Ballard, were enchanted by the waterfalls that are central to Camp today. A few years later, in 1918, Winnataska welcomed its first campers, boys and girls, who boarded a train in Birmingham and hiked the last five miles in their best traveling clothes.
More than one hundred years later, fourth and fifth-generation campers related to the Ballard family and the first campers of 1918 still attend Camp. Winnataska is a true historical treasure in the Southeast and, perhaps most wondrously, is still welcoming first-generation campers every summer.
Camp Winnataska's history began as an afternoon excursion in March 1914 in a Model-T Ford. Lured to the site by a promising fishing hole, Dr. Elwyn Ballard and his wife, Florence Aye Ballard, were enchanted by the waterfalls that are central to Camp today. A few years later, in 1918, Winnataska welcomed its first campers, boys and girls, who boarded a train in Birmingham and hiked the last five miles in their best traveling clothes.
More than one hundred years later, fourth and fifth-generation campers related to the Ballard family and the first campers of 1918 still attend Camp. Winnataska is a true historical treasure in the Southeast and, perhaps most wondrously, is still welcoming first-generation campers every summer.
